Geographic Modifications

• #270 Update name of FYR of Macedonia to North Macedonia (@szajbus)
• #267 Update Moroccan regions and subregions to match the new standard (after 2015), because of the absence of the new iso codes, I used the last two digit of the non-official HASC codes. (@kainio)
• #268 Remove UK overlays for Middlesex and Wiltshire (@manewitz)

• #250 Add better fuzzy searching when using Querying#named. Calling this method with fuzzy: true does better with dashes, apostrophes, and spaces (@raj)

Geographic Modifications

• #256 Fix Brazilian regions - remove Fernando de Noronha (@guicruzzs)
• #252 Update Kenya subregions to match ISO standard (@gyarra)
• #249 Rename Mexico's Distrito Federal and make it a state (@jtapia)
• #247 Fix New Zealand regions to match 2015-11-27 ISO correction (@louim)

• #231 Base ISO data has been updated for the first time since October 25, 2014
• #233 Revert removing Puerto Rico as a country code
• #217 Add serializer friendly to_hash for Country and Region (@zarelit)
• #137 Add country search by numeric code (@Envek)
• #200 Add municipalities of Mexico (@jdsampayo)
• #193 Allow filtering subregions by type (@aldesantis)
• #180 Region#subregions returns freezed array (@j15e)
• #177 Always return a RegionCollection from Region#load_subregions (@codeodor)
• Various geographic data updates by Carmen contributors. Thank you!

• Replace use of UnicodeUtils with ActiveSupport (eikes)
• Update data from upstream sources.
• Fix spelling errors for French subregions (hugolantaume)
• Fix spelling errors for Spanish subregions (nudzg)
• Added missing nl translations for bq, cw, ss and sx (brtdv)
• Moved translations into locale/overlay from locale/base. Base is only for data from iso_codes.
• Changed the official name of Taiwan to Republic of China.
• Fixed the name of Vietnam.
• Add local files for Bangla language (tauhidul35)

• Avoid raising an exception when calling Querying#coded with a nil code
• Fix a bug where adding additional data paths caused an error when looking up localized names in the base locale data (seangaffney)
• Add Country#numeric_code (stevenharman)
• Fix the name of Lima (goddamnhippie)
• Add south Sudan Swedish translation (barsoom)
• Add Russian translations of Russian Federation (Envek)
• Fix a regression in the localization of Taiwan from the 1.0 rewrite.
• Fix a bug where empty locale files would prevent access to the base data.
• Add a way to ship overlayed data sets with Carmen to allow for differences from the upstream data source.
• Remove Puerto Rico from the list of countries as it is a subregion.
• Restore the naming of Taiwan after a regression to an outdated name.
• Added La Rioja to the list of subregions of Argentina (njacobs1)
• Added APO states to US subregions.

• Updated version numbering and pushed 1.0.0pre to v1.0.0.
• Merged in updates to German locations, via a patch from @leifg

• Complete rewrite. New data source and API. Extracting Rails view helpers into seperate gem.

• Republish the gem with Ruby 1.8.7.

• Remove Jeweler and release new version.

• Generate the gem with Ruby 1.8.7 to try to fix YAML library incompatibilities.

• Preserve order of priority_countries in country_select (castiglione)
• Add Finnish localization (marjakapyaho)
• Update a few contru names to match ISO naming (belt)
• Fall back to default locale if selected locale is missing (twinge)
• Added Russian country translations (grlm)
• Added South Sudan as a country (edshadi)
• Renamed Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to Libya (mdimas)
• Fixed an issue where trying find a country for a blank string would match everything (smathieu)
• Added Italian country names (Arkham)
• Add Polish, slovak and czech translations (Pajk)
• Various corrections to country names (wolframarnold)
• Add Chinese counties (liwh)
• Add Dutch province names (ariejan)
• Add Saint Barthelemy (BL) and Saint Martin (French Part) (MF) (nengxu)
• Add Japanese countries localization (bonsaiben)
• Prevent Carmen::state_name('NO','NO') from crashing (mhourahine)
• Change "Taiwan, Province of China" to "Taiwan" (camilleroux)
• Add spanish translation for countries (federomero)

• Use a shorter name for US Armed Forces States (cgs)
• Added Gujarat to the list of states in India (swaroopch)
• Added American Samoa to the list of US States
• Added Dutch country translations (Arie)
• Added Kosovo to German Translation (Christopher Thorpe)
• Added the ability to list countries at the top of the list (jjthrash)
• Added country names in Hindi (sukeerthiadiga)

• Fix a gemspec disaster.

• Suppress a deprecation warning in Rails 3 (anupamc)
• Remove init.rb altogether and use requires under Rails
• Added Indian states and union territories (orthodoc)

• Data corrections (mikepinde)

• Fixed autoloading under Rails 3

• Added state and country exclusion (kalafut)

• Added regions for New Zealand (yehezkielbs)

• Merge in Maximilian Schulz's locale fork, refactor internals to better support locales, and update documentation.
• Remove Carmen::STATES and Carmen::COUNTRIES constants in favor of module instance variables and proper accessors.
• Add a test_helper and remove dependency on RubyGems.

• DEPRECATE Carmen::COUNTRIES in favor of Carmen.countries